Entering the U.S. army after fleeing the Great Famine in Ireland, seventeen-year-old Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, experience the harrowing realities of the Indian wars and the American Civil War between the Wyoming plains and Tennessee.

"First published in Great Britain by Faber & Faber Limited"--Title page verso. "First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2016"--Title page verso.